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Thomas Mueller commented on JCR-2910:
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> flawed design
isAdmin() simply is not flawed design. Within Unix systems, there is a very simple way to find out if the user is root.
> encouraging client code... if (session.isAdmin()) {
So, basically you admit that the only reason for you to be against this feature is to make my work harder? :-)
> already outlines two workarounds
I already gave you the reasons why the workarounds are not acceptable.
Acceptable solutions are JackrabbitSession.getUser() (actually I would prefer that), or JackrabbitSession.isAdmin(). I fail to see any reason why this would be "flawed design".
> Please add JackrabbitSession.isAdmin()
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> Key: JCR-2910
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-2910
> Project: Jackrabbit Content Repository
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Thomas Mueller
> Priority: Minor
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> Currently finding out if the session user is an admin requires:
> JackrabbitSession js = (JackrabbitSession) session;
> User user = ((User) js.getUserManager().getAuthorizable(session.getUserID()));
> boolean isAdmin = user.isAdmin();
> Or: ((SessionImpl) session).isAdmin(). However casting to an implementation is problematic for several reasons.
> I think it would make sense to add isAdmin() to the JackrabbitSession interface, so the code above would be:
> ((JackrabbitSession) session).isAdmin()
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